Today on Happy Second Confused, Adam McKay combines comedy and drama in the new Dick Cheney biopick Vice.

Hey guys, I'm Josh Harrowitz.

Welcome to another edition of Happy, Sad, Confused.

Welcome to a very fun conversation with a filmmaker and writer that I very much admire.

Adam McKay is the guest on Happy Set Confused today, his very first visit to the podcast and as I said his new film that's

getting a ton of attention and as it should it's one of my favorites of the

year it is the Christian Bale yes yes Christian Bale, as Dick Cheney biopic, called Vice.

Much like Adam McKay's last film, The Big Short, Vice treads that line between comedy and drama in a way that really only

Adam McKay is operating in nowadays. It has an amazing ensemble of actors in it

behind Christian Bale's revelatory transformation are

the likes of Amy Adams and Steve Correll and Sam Rockwell and that's just the tip of the iceberg.

Virtually every actor, every character that pops up in this film is played by a great talent.

It's a super entertaining and disturbing film.

I mean, it's by turns funny and tragic and frustrating.

And it is one of my favorites as I said of the year and at the very least you

cannot deny the power of Christian Bale's performance in this and AB Adams is similarly fantastic as Lynn Cheney.

Well worth your time, Vice comes out Christmas Day, fun for the whole family.

But no, I do highly recommend it.

And it was a real treat to have Adam on the podcast.

He's somebody I wanted to have on the show a long while

because I greatly respect his contributions as a filmmaker and as a writer.

This guy, if you talk to anybody in comedy the last 20, 25 years, he is at or near the top of the list. He was a master, improv a founding

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